Your Open Source freedoms
Open Source software comes with its source code and a licence that lets anyone use, study, change and share it. Those rights put you, not a vendor, in control of the software you depend on.
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Talk to usFour rights come with every Open Source licence
Use
Run it for any purpose, without asking permission.
Study
Read the source code and see how the software works.
Change
Adapt it to your needs, yourself or with any supplier.
Share
Pass it on, with or without your changes.
What the rights mean for your organization
Freedom to look inside
You and your auditors can read the source code of the Open Source software you run.
Freedom to change it
Change it yourself, or hire anyone to do it, instead of waiting on a vendor's roadmap.
Customers adapt KubeAid and LinuxAid, and extend KubeAid with their own charts.
Freedom to leave
No licence ties you to one supplier, so you can switch without losing the software.
Obmondo subscriptions run month to month, and we document the setup so another provider can take over.
Freedom to choose where it runs
Run it in a public or private cloud, or on your own hardware, in the country you choose. That is digital sovereignty.
KubeAid runs on Hetzner, AWS, Azure or your own hardware.
One fix, shared with every user
When one user fixes a bug and shares it back, every user who updates gets the fix. Nobody pays for the same work twice.
Security
Users and researchers review the same code, and the project publishes the fix for every version it still supports.
Compliance
Hardening and patching for ISO 27001 or NIS2 is much the same work everywhere. Open projects build the rules and automation for it once and share them.
A fix we build for one customer is available to every customer running the same project. A task that takes 30 hours in total may put only 5 on your invoice.
Someone has to keep your version patched
Security comes from patching and hardening, and that work never stops. Sponsors pay developers for new features, not for keeping old versions safe. Many smaller projects only patch their latest release, so you have to keep upgrading.
Larger projects
They keep older versions patched for a fixed period, like PostgreSQL's five years per major version.
Distributions
Red Hat and Ubuntu maintain a selected set of packages for years. Rocky Linux rebuilds Red Hat's packages and AlmaLinux builds compatible ones, so both get those fixes too.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes patches only its three newest minor versions, each for about a year, so clusters need regular upgrades to stay supported.
We track the open CVEs on each server, with their severity and the next service window. LinuxAid can install updates in that window on Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Rocky Linux and SLES, and cluster upgrades come as a branch in your config repository for you to merge.
Open Source, run for you
KubeAid and LinuxAid are our Open Source projects for Kubernetes and Linux. Use them yourself for free, or let our operations team run them for you.
Questions about Open Source
Does Open Source mean free of charge?
Not necessarily. Open Source is about the rights the licence gives you, not the price. KubeAid and LinuxAid are free to use, and a subscription pays us to run them.
Is Open Source less secure because anyone can read the code?
No. Anyone can review open code, including your auditors, and each project publishes fixes for every version it still supports.
Who is responsible when something breaks?
Open Source licences usually come without a warranty, so someone has to step in when the software breaks. With Obmondo, our operations team picks up the alert, and Gold and Platinum cover nights and weekends.
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